Bringing the roof wiring into the van involved more than making connections at each box. This rod kit is part of my purchased routing tools for reaching through enclosed paths.
The larger roof enclosure during my cable-entry work.
The item in my kit
I bought Boeray Fiberglass Wire-Pulling Rods as part of my camper van equipment.
Bringing the roof wiring into the van involved more than making connections at each box. This rod kit is part of my purchased routing tools for reaching through enclosed paths.
Where it fits my build
I brought the roof light wires and camera cables into a PVC conduit layout. That work included drilled enclosures, threaded fittings, cable glands, solder-seal splices and grouped wiring.
During the small-box stage, I drilled for a male PVC fitting and used a fitting inside as a retaining nut. I routed the camera cable through a gland into a tee and brought the light-wire groups toward the van entry.
A grouped roof-wire connection before the final conduit work.
My build notes
The wiring project was a sequence of individual connections and routes. The photographs show the intermediate stages, including open boxes and wrapped wire groups, before the remaining covers and conduit joints were finished.
I built the cable route a section at a time, bringing local connections into the larger conduit system.
Alternative products
Two alternatives to compare
FTIHTRY supplies a longer sectional-rod kit. The Klein fish tape changes to a flat steel tape stored in a reel housing.
FTIHTRY Wire-Pulling Rod Kit
This FTIHTRY kit assembles fiberglass sections into a longer wire guide. Different end attachments provide ways to guide or retrieve a lead along a route.
This Klein tool stores a flat steel fish tape inside a reel housing. The tape feeds out as a continuous guide instead of joining individual rod sections.
